also, mrbigqueso's post made my day

Satty with 3 left, 2 qualify. Blinds 150-300. Shorty w/ 1500 folds, villain shoves AJs face up with 7500, I have QQ and 4000...

Will you be organizing some challenges of SSMTT v. HSMTT?

Wat?

r u gay?

Hey what's up Gobbo. AtlBrvs4Life here. I remember talking with you a little back in the glory days of online poker.

Why did ExitOnly have the biggest impact on your poker career?

What change did you make in the last year that you believe had the biggest impact on your ROI in tournaments?

I think this picture is a good answer to all of your questions.



In this situation I'm simply not going to be making many marginal raises. If I do, I'm going to wait for a good situation to do it where pretty much people have to wake up with a strong hand to play back at me and my cards really don't matter a whole lot when I'm choosing to do this. Restealing is also great at this stack size.

Also, if I get called preflop very often I won't take the 'automatic' stab at the pot because people almost never fold the flop anymore.

Definitely not necessary at all. During MTT's, poker tracker is extra information but it can definitely backfire on you sometimes because of short run variance. Pokerstove definitely helps in the analysis of hands, but 2p2 does even better for you and people on there will use pokerstove. Knowing how to use both of them is definitely useful though and there's no downside to learning. The best way to learn how to be a better player is, and always will be, playing poker.

Panorama towers in Vegas. It's a highrise with a bunch of condos in it that are rented out. Everyone tells me it's a great place to live and there are a ton of poker players in there. I can't wait.

I may not leave 'forever' since I'd definitely come back to see family and maybe come to relax for a week or so, but yeah, I probably won't be around as much anymore.

I think I already have made a slight transition to being a 'live pro.' I don't enjoy playing online as much anymore but I'll probably always play both but if I have the chance of playing a $200 online MTT or a $500 live one I'll always take the live tourney.

I heard about that casino, it looks really cool to me. I wanted to play the circuit event but the Bellagio is having a tourney series late October too, so the dates might clash. Otherwise I'd love to see it.

You're too big time for me, what can I say? We definitely should hang out next time you're anywhere playing poker. You gonna be at Borgata maybe?

Omaha is less about figuring out if you have the best hand, since everyone at the table will be aware who has the best hand at any point. Omaha is about finding out how to put in more money when you have the best hand than simply bombing the **** out of the pot. It's very much a cat and mouse game moreso than Holdem which is just brutalizing people over and over again. O8 is a patience game and takes a lot of discipline, except in MTT's where you can play every pot.

Yeah.

I used to be pretty good at math. I think I have good empathy. I'm really bad at knowing the right thing to say or do though and then actually doing it. I have very little self discipline.

I played Magic and other card games/tabletop games but nothing where math was involved heavily.

I try to coach her from time to time but she's not a winner yet and she's as stubborn as I am so it's a slow process.

I hate it, I think there are a lot better lines in a lot of situations than open shoving for almost 20 blinds but sometimes it takes too much time to figure out an optimal line so you're forced into making the 'unexploitable' play.

Is it spanky?

Doing stuff like 100% cbetting postflop with a hand that has some value (ace high, overs and a gutshot, bottom pair) and then having to fold when the fundamental theorem of poker tells you that it's incorrect to. Because people tend to c/r in shortstack situations with a huge range it's not correct to bet so frequently with your weak hands that can call a bet but not put in lots of bets profitably. And then there are other situations where live pros have a hand that's good enough to stack off with but they can look for other ways to do it than turning their hand faceup so that it's still profitable to put it in, but they're losing a lot of value from their opponent's range.

I think it's a fold but I don't know. I hate satellite strategy. The one big live satellite I ever played in was before main event of aussie 2007 and I was guaranteed a seat if I just folded every hand but I had to shove KK because I couldn't bring myself to fold. Luckily no one had AA.

I hope so, maybe not against each other but some teams would be cool. One HSMTT + one SSMTT against another team and another team, etc. Or another MTT Superstars would be cool too.

Drinking sucks.

Cause he got me into MTT's and was the first person I would talk to about hands with on AIM. It was great and he also helped me get used to talking to a lot of people on 2p2.

I honestly don't know. I think a lot of the things I've learned have been subtle and/or subconscious.

Who's better at Magic, Kai Budde or Jon Finkel?

Which is/was Jeff Garza better at, Magic or poker?

Jon had more raw talent I think.

And Jeff's much much better at poker if he ever ****ING TRIED.

Gobbo, how are you with the ladies.

Terrible.

I know you already have a Mom here....

My mother in laws injury cost in the neighborhood of $100K in the first week gobbo. All told, she'll probably need some kind of care for at least a year.

The only two names off the top of my head prepared for that kind of variance are Gates and Buffet.

You should be able to pick up hospitalization pretty cheap. Please strongly consider it.

In the same vein, have you opened an IRA, looked at investments, etc.?

How much of a help or advantage is poker software, did/do you ever use any? How many tables at a time did/do you play?

Thanks!

when will we see the well: gobbomom?

do u still play mtg or mtgo? i still kinda enjoy drafting on modo from time to time esp during downswings

Dude no offense but why the hell do you make a well if you have no hobbies or anything interesting to talk about? Your one hobby was talking to friends about poker. This is def. the worst well ever as it is falling already after a day. I know how everyone around here is sik buddies and likes to discuss poker while doing nothing else, but jesus either do something with your life or don't make a well version 3.

I thought the purpose of a well was to ask questions regarding poker and not other interests? and this is a poker forum so who cares if poker is his only hobby.

edit: question for gobbo, for SNG grinders, if someone has an adequate sample size and a reasonable roi... how do u determine how far off you are from your actual roi? Also, do u think it is important to drop a level in stakes in order to gain confidence back and why do u think u should drop a level if u are rolled for your normal stakes and are still playing good but just running bad...

sorry if u dont understand my question to well my english is bad.

I agree with this. Exercising your mod powers to steamroll this in here. I guess you just could not stand Watts getting any attention. His replies were interesting and he answered the questions asked.

Lost a ton of credibility with this one.

Were you waiting for someone to troll me again so you could post without getting reprimanded for being the first one to do it?

gobbo, imo you are a freak and a weird dude.

Have you been watching the olympics? What sports?

How many hours per week do you put into poker?

If you ever do go completely busto, what would you do?

Will you be at the Aussie Millions 2009?

I'll look into it. In my car insurance with my new car I'm going to be getting some bodily injury insurance so that will help.

I have looked at some investments but frankly speaking I don't have enough money right now to really worry about it that much. Backing/makeup is a lot of money and people think I'm a millionaire when I'm not.

I answered stuff about Pokertracker earlier in the thread, but I never really played enough tables in the recent past to make it worth it. Back in the heyday of low stakes MTT's I was playing 12 tables fairly often but recently I don't go more than 6 usually.

I don't know, I still get a ton of **** whenever I say anything to anyone and people take everything she says out of context so I have a feeling she wouldn't be interested in having a thread basically called "Come flame me!"

I actually just drafted LLM last night. I'm not very good anymore but I could see drafting every once in a while. It's funny that a draft set used to be so much money and I had to scrape together whatever I could find to do it but now it's just whatever, I'll buy a box for laughs.

Haven't been watching em.

As of right now, when I'm on the road I would say 90% of my waking time is sweating or playing poker but at home I would say only 40% is.

I've been almost busto fairly recently. It helps when you have a full backing deal.

Yeah, I think so. It's a tough trip but it's a lot of fun with a lot of good, soft tournaments.

Gobbo,

Really enjoyed the questions and your responses. I recall playing some 1/2 and 2/4 plo on stars with you and you were always a gentleman.

How does one with not many connections in the poker world go about trying to get backing? I am asking this for myself because I don't really even know where to start or know if it is possible.

Thanks and good luck with your tourney schedule.

Gobbo,Can you Hoola Hoop?

Good to hear, no doubt there will be a 2p2 meet up at some stage would be good to catch up

Do you still play (or have ever played) video games? If so, whats more anticipated, Diablo 3 or Starcraft 2?

I remember AJunglen making a post about being in vancouver for the riverrock tourney series, were you there? What did you do on time outside of tournies?

It's tough, it basically comes down to getting a good reputation as a winning player and a trustworthy person. Get to know someone who is rich and then ask them.

It's like horseshoes!

I was there the first year that we did it, I think November 2006. It was fun but the tourneys weren't big enough and there weren't enough people going there to make it worth going the second time.

We went out to a few nice restaurants, and one night afterwards they went out to a strip club and I wasn't interested so me and Adam just went back to the casino.

Ummm....wat? Hmmm....hang out with another dude and gamble like you do every day of your life, or go chill at the club?
"Not that there's anything wrong with that"